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Yakushiji Motoichi

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Template:Japanese name Yakushiji Motoichi (薬師寺 元一, 1475 - 1504) was a Japanese samurai of the early Sengoku period, who served the Hosokawa clan. Motoichi was a retainer of Hosokawa Masamoto and deputy governor of Settsu Province. In the Autumn of 1504 he rebelled against Masamoto and marched to Kyoto but his rebellion was defeated seventeen days later when Masamoto's forces took his castle of Yodo. Motoichi was captured and committed seppuku.[1]

References

  1. ^ Berry, Mary Elizabeth (1994). The culture of civil war in Kyoto. University of California Press. pp. 1, 2.

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